9 Strategies for Motivating (HIGH SCHOOL) Students in Mathematics

[AlexFekken]

(07-08-2017 02:39 AM)Garth Wilson Wrote:  One of my beefs is that the necessary math for engineering is presented in such a theoretical and sterile way, and without real application...

Sounds like you have a beef with teaching pure mathermatics, as opposed to topics that are perhaps better described as arithmetic and/or engineering calculations, i.e. topics on the periphery of mathematics.

I actually have a beef with pretending that such topics are representative of, or perhaps even the definition of, mathematics. Perhaps the teaching of "mathematics" should be split into those two separate areas then: one for students who are looking for (presumably commercially rewarding) applications, and one for students trying to learn something that goes beyond that...?